Shark Tank, CSI:NY and Who Do You Think You Are were each adjusted up a tenth while Primetime: Who Do You Thhink You Are was adjusted down a tenth among adults 18-49versus Friday’s preliminary ratings.

ABC was the top network among adults 18-49, while CBS was the number one network in total viewers.

On ABC, Shark Tank earned a 1.6 among adults 18-49, down two tenths from last week’s 1.8. Primetime: What Would You Do? also earned a 1.6, which was up from last week’s 1.4 adults 18-49 rating.

On CBS, Undercover Boss earned 1.1, down four tenths from last week’s 1.5. CSI: NY scored a 1.1, down three tenths from last week’s 1.4. Blue Bloods drew a 1.3 18-49 rating, down a tenth from last week’s 1.4 rating.

On NBC, Who Do You Think You Are? scored a 0.8, down a tenth from last week’s 0.9 in adults 18-49. Grimm earned a 1.2 adults 18-49 rating, down two-tenths from last week’s 1.4. Dateline matched last week’s 1.3 rating.

On FOX, The Finder’s series finale earned a 1.1, up a tick from last week’s 1.0 rating. Fringe’s season finale was also up a tick, earning a 1.0 compared to last week’s 0.9 rating.

On the CW, Nikita was even with last week’s 0.4 rating. Supernatural also matched last week’s 0.7 rating.

At 12:35 a.m., “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” (1.5/5 in metered-market households) beat CBS’s “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” (1.2/4). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, “Late Night” (0.7/4 in 18-49) topped “Late Late Show” (0.3/2).

At 1:35 a.m., “Last Call with Carson Daly” averaged a 0.9/4 in metered-market households and a 0.4/3 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.

NOTE: All ratings are “live plus same day” from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.

Definitions:

Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent. More information on ratings is available here.

Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)

Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.

Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.

Finale ratings #FINDER 1.1 in 18-49 with 4,156,000 viewers. #FRINGE 1.0 with 3,164,000 observers. See you in September

The night’s full ratings will be posted soon.

]]>http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/broadcast/fringe-the-finder-ratings-rise-slightly-in-finales/feed/0stevebaronFRINGE_422_5Thank @MaskedScheduler for the 'Fringe' Ratings by Watching Him on the Series Finale of 'The Finder'http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/broadcast/thank-maskedscheduler-for-the-fringe-ratings-by-watching-him-on-the-series-finale-of-the-finder/
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Some twitter-ers have accused @MaskedScheduler for being a bit douche-y by pimping his cameo in tonight’s season and series finale of The Finder. Is it insensitive to promote an appearance on a show your network wound up cancelling? We don’t really think so, but we’re biased. Every Saturday after a Fringe original episode, going back to at least sometime in Fringe’s third season, @MaskedScheduler has tweeted out the Fringe numbers as soon as he got them (which was usually at least 15-30 minutes before most people saw them). We appreciate it.

Sure, The Finder is canceled regardless of tonight’s ratings, and it won’t mean anything, but it will make @MaskedScheduler happy, and that seems like a good enough reason to me.

@MaskedScheduler is the sometimes prickly, often snarky, almost always entertaining alter-ego of Preston Beckman who is the outgoing head of scheduling at the Fox broadcast network. Beckman is moving on to a strategic role at Fox Networks (which includes cable networks like FX) which, selfishly, we hope will free up time for even more snark from him on Twitter.

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Fox has renewed Touch for a second season – no word on number of episodes ordered yet. Not a surprise, both Bill and I thought renewal was more likely than cancellation.

Alcatraz is dead (no surprise) and now Fox has canceled The Finder too (also no surprise).

ABC was the top network among adults 18-49, while CBS was the number one network in total viewers. The Avengers earned 80.5 million dollars on Friday, so feel free to blame it for your favorite show’s ratings decline. All scripted shows on the Big 4 networks dropped, while The CW’s genre shows held steady.

On ABC, Shark Tank garnered a 1.7 among adults 18-49, up from last week’s 1.4. Primetime: What Would You Do? earned a 1.4 adults 18-49 rating up from a 1.1 last week. 20/20 got a1.5 in adults 18-49 up from last week’s 1.4.

On CBS, Undercover Boss earned a 1.4 in adults 18-49, down from last week’s 1.6. CSI: NY scored a 1.3 adults 18-49 rating down from last week’s 1.5. Blue Bloods got a1.4 among adults 18-49 down from last week’s 1.5.

On NBC, Who Do You Think You Are? scored a 0.9 in adults 18-49 down from a 1.0 last week. Grimm earned a 1.3 adults 18-49 rating, down from last week’s 1.4. Dateline got a 1.3 among adults 18-49 up from last week’s 1.1.

On FOX, The Finder got a 1.0 among adults 18-49, down from last week’s 1.1. Fringe earned a 0.9 rating among adults 18-49, down from last week’s 1.0.

On the CW, Nikita got a 0.4 in adults 18-49 even with last week. Supernatural scored a 0.7 adults 18-49matching last week’s performance..

At 12:35 a.m., “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” (1.5/4 in metered-market households) beat CBS’s “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” (1.3/4). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, “Late Night” (0.6/3 in 18-49) topped “Late Late Show” (0.4/2).

At 1:35 a.m., “Last Call with Carson Daly” averaged a 0.9/3 in metered-market households and a 0.3/2 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.

NOTE: All ratings are “live plus same day” from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.

Definitions:

Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent. More information on ratings is available here.

Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)

Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.

Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.

Fringe fell to a 0.9 adults 18-49 rating in the first part of its two-part season finale. That’s down a tenth vs. the 1.0 adults 18-49 rating last week. At 8pm, The Finder had a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating, also down a tenth vs. the 1.1 adults 18-49 rating last Friday. Blame The Avengers?

The Finder was down a tenth to a 1.1 adults 18-49 rating, vs. last week’s 1.2 adults 18-49 rating. Fringe was up a tenth to a 1.1 adults 18-49 rating, versus last week’s 1.0 rating.

Shark Tank returned from a week-long break and was down two tenths to a 1.4 vs. its last original’s 1.6 18-49 rating. Primetime: What would You Do? Earned a 1.1, down two-tenths from last week’s 1.3 adults 18-49 rating. At 10PM, a new 20/20 earned 1.4, up two-tenths from last week’s 1.2

On NBC, Who Do You Think You Are? returned from two weeks off and was up two tenths to earn a 1.0 compared to the 0.8 its last original earned April 6. Grimm was flat with last week’s 1.4 adults 18-49 rating. Dateline was down three tenths to a 1.1 adults 18-49 rating compared with last week’s 1.4 18-49 rating.

CBS was all-new for the first time in three weeks. Undercover Boss returned down a tenth to a 1.6 vs. its last original (April 13) which earned a1.7 rating. CSI: NY was down three tenths and earned a 1.4 compared to its last original which earned a 1.7 three weeks prior. Blue Bloods also returned from a three-week hiatus and was down three tenths to a 1.4 vs. the 1.7 its last new episode earned.

On The CW, Nikita was even with last week’s series low-matching 0.4 adults 18-49 rating. Supernatural shed a tenth from last week’s 0.7, earning a 0.6 18-49 rating.

At 12:35 a.m., “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” (1.6/5 in metered-market households) beat CBS’s “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” (1.2/4). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, “Late Night” (0.6/3 in 18-49) topped “Late Late Show” (0.4/2).

At 1:35 a.m., “Last Call with Carson Daly” averaged a 0.9/4 in metered-market households and a 0.4/3 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.

NOTE: All ratings are “live plus same day” from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.

Definitions:

Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent. More information on ratings is available here.

Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)

Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.

Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.